{"id":29053,"date":"2025-03-13T15:48:28","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T19:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=29053"},"modified":"2025-03-13T15:48:28","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T19:48:28","slug":"the-obamas-higher-ground-productions-to-produce-tiger-woods-biopic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=29053","title":{"rendered":"The Obamas&#8217; Higher Ground Productions to Produce Tiger Woods Biopic"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p class=\"p1\">\u00a9Courtesy of Tiger Woods.com<\/p>\r\n<p>Barack and Michelle Obama\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/highergroundmedia.com\/\">Higher Ground Productions<\/a> and Amazon MGM Studios are\u00a0 reportedly in talks to produce a biopic about legendary golfer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0971329\/\">Tiger Woods<\/a>. Considered one of the greatest golfers of all time, Woods famously captured four of the top professional golf titles, an accomplishment known as the \u201cTiger Slam.\u201d\u00a0 This and other of his accomplishments landed him in the World Golf Hall of Fame. He became the first Black golfer to achieve some of these awards.<br \/><br \/>It\u2019s likely that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm3232264\/\">Reinaldo Marcus Green<\/a> (of <em><strong>King Richard<\/strong><\/em> fame) will be directing the upcoming Tiger Woods biopic. Winkler Films is also participating in the development process with Higher Ground and Amazon MGM.<\/p>\r\n<p>The biopic will be based on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm6219547\/\">Kevin Cook<\/a>\u2019s book <em>The Tiger Slam: The Inside Story of the Greatest Golf Ever Played<\/em>, a title derived from the fact that Woods had famously captured four of the top professional golf titles during his storied career, even while battling personal demons such as marital infidelity and the loss of his father. He was arrested in 2017 for driving under the influence of alcohol, and he was seriously injured in an automobile accident in 2021. Over the course of his career, Woods underwent a number of health challenges, including back surgeries.<\/p>\r\n<p><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1774669342741533\" data-ad-slot=\"1211148813\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins><br \/><br \/>News about the potential deal with Higher Ground Productions was broken by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-news\/tiger-woods-biopic-amazon-mgm-studios-1236162107\/\"><em>The Hollywood Reporter<\/em><\/a>, which also called attention to Tiger Woods\u2019s earlier connections with the Obamas. As part of the Obama inauguration festivities in 2009, Woods gave a speech at the Lincoln Memorial in tribute to the military. Later that year, he was invited to the White House for a special tour.<br \/><br \/>The Obamas&#8217; production company has given its imprint to several notable films, including George C. Wolfe\u2019s <strong><em>Rustin<\/em><\/strong>, about civil-rights activist Bayard Rustin and Sam Esmail\u2019s<em><strong> Leave the World Behind<\/strong><\/em>, an apocalyptic thriller about the breakdown of technology that is typically taken for granted in today\u2019s culture.<br \/><br \/>Check out other articles by Edward<br \/><br \/><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1774669342741533\" data-ad-slot=\"1211148813\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\u00a0<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a9Courtesy of Tiger Woods.com Barack and Michelle Obama\u2019s Higher Ground Productions and Amazon MGM Studios are\u00a0 reportedly in talks to produce a biopic about legendary golfer Tiger Woods. Considered one of the greatest golfers of all time, Woods famously captured four of the top professional golf titles, an accomplishment known as the \u201cTiger Slam.\u201d\u00a0 This&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":29141,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,20471],"tags":[6339,26498,26495,26496,8466,2888,26497,26494],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Obamas&#039; Higher Ground Productions to Produce Tiger Woods Biopic<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Barack \uff06 Michelle Obama\u2019s Higher Ground Productions and Amazon MGM Studios are\u00a0 reportedly in talks to produce a biopic of Tiger Woods.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=29053\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Obamas&#039; 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